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"NASA announces 3.5B-year-old organic matter, building blocks for life on red planet"
Which means we still have not clue if life exists outside this planet. I guess that means something to a trained scientist though. I was hoping for fossil remains or a hidden city.
3.5B years old? It's older than dirt!
Good point. If it's a living microbe.Well, consider the fact that if life is discovered in the form of some microbe, what immunology do humans have against it? What would it do to a human, livestock, and plant-life we would bring with us?Help me out here. If we know what the current conditions are on Mars, why does it matter if it had early life forms 3 billion years ago. At one point it supported water; now it doesn't. How does that help us now? I'm hearing that we want to colonize Mars; Elon Musk has actually built ships to take us there. So what diff if it had single cell organisms 3 billion years ago?Any kind of life would be great, present or past. That opens up some doors!Hell, I'd be more than thrilled with microorganisms. Either way, next up is Titan and Enceladus. I'd bet (a little) that some kind of life exists in our solar system, not to mention the one billion trillion OTHER solar systems.Wouldn't it be?
Will all of the hype they are putting into it, it better be good. Any kind of sentient life would be beyond incredible.
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My bet is it found evidence of advanced organisms... such as some kind of organism with a vertebrae
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Just wondering why that matters to anyone--if you ask me they're doing more than looking for some signs of early life. They're doing a lot more than that.
We could put a thousand people on Mars inside a hundred years; only to find they'll all die within months of setting up shop.
Really? 3 billion years is a long time for even an organism to survive, especially 1+ billion years of conditions not conducive to life. Michael Crichton fodder, that is.Help me out here. If we know what the current conditions are on Mars, why does it matter if it had early life forms 3 billion years ago. At one point it supported water; now it doesn't. How does that help us now? I'm hearing that we want to colonize Mars; Elon Musk has actually built ships to take us there. So what diff if it had single cell organisms 3 billion years ago?Any kind of life would be great, present or past. That opens up some doors!Hell, I'd be more than thrilled with microorganisms. Either way, next up is Titan and Enceladus. I'd bet (a little) that some kind of life exists in our solar system, not to mention the one billion trillion OTHER solar systems.Wouldn't it be?
Will all of the hype they are putting into it, it better be good. Any kind of sentient life would be beyond incredible.
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My bet is it found evidence of advanced organisms... such as some kind of organism with a vertebrae
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Just wondering why that matters to anyone--if you ask me they're doing more than looking for some signs of early life. They're doing a lot more than that.
If there were organisms then terraforming might bring them back and we could end up being attacked by things like virus or illness not ever seen on Earth.
Damn media.... I mean this was cool, another significant marker for the likelihood of life....but the damn media and "biggest space discovery in modern times"??.....no.
This didn't even merit a special announcement.
How many years does it take to get there?European space agency is sending a spacecraft in 2020 that has the capability to dig 6 feet down.
6 - 8 monthsHow many years does it take to get there?European space agency is sending a spacecraft in 2020 that has the capability to dig 6 feet down.
That is on the Moon.I bet they found the monolith.
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"NASA announces 3.5B-year-old organic matter, building blocks for life on red planet"
Which means we still have not clue if life exists outside this planet. I guess that means something to a trained scientist though. I was hoping for fossil remains or a hidden city.
*image for graphical purposes only.That is on the Moon.I bet they found the monolith.
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"What this new study is showing in some detail is the discovery of complex and diverse organic compounds in the sediments. That doesn't mean life, but organic compounds are the building blocks of life," he added.
That was stupid and overwrought.NASA robot detects complex organic matter on Mars in 'significant breakthrough' - SkyNews
"What this new study is showing in some detail is the discovery of complex and diverse organic compounds in the sediments. That doesn't mean life, but organic compounds are the building blocks of life," he added.
In other words, on Mars, a single cell could be considered a building block of life. On Earth however, a "clump of cells" called fetus are not considered a life.
Interesting.
That was stupid and overwrought.NASA robot detects complex organic matter on Mars in 'significant breakthrough' - SkyNews
"What this new study is showing in some detail is the discovery of complex and diverse organic compounds in the sediments. That doesn't mean life, but organic compounds are the building blocks of life," he added.
In other words, on Mars, a single cell could be considered a building block of life. On Earth however, a "clump of cells" called fetus are not considered a life.
Interesting.
Your implication that a building block of life is the equivalent of life, a ridiculous notion on which your entire, ridiculous, overwrought point rests?That was stupid and overwrought.NASA robot detects complex organic matter on Mars in 'significant breakthrough' - SkyNews
"What this new study is showing in some detail is the discovery of complex and diverse organic compounds in the sediments. That doesn't mean life, but organic compounds are the building blocks of life," he added.
In other words, on Mars, a single cell could be considered a building block of life. On Earth however, a "clump of cells" called fetus are not considered a life.
Interesting.
Is it true?
